Hand writing-board.



PATENTED SEPT. 6, 1904.

C. J. BELLAMY. HAND WRITING BOARD.

APPLIGATION FILED FEB. 25, 1904.

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C. J. BELLAMY.

HAND WRITING BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 25. 1904.

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PATENT CEEICE.

CHARLES J. BELLAMY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

HAND WRITING-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,678, datedSeptember 6, 1904.

Original application filed December 21, 1903, Serial No 185,984. Dividedand this application filed February 25, 1904. Serial No. 195,266. (Nomodel.)

To 1!]! whom it iim l concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs J. BELLAHY, a citizen of the United Statesof America, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden 5 andCommonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Hand\VritingBoard, of which the following is a specification, the same beinga divisional part of an application for Letters Patent of the UnitedStates filed by me December 21, 1903, and serially numbered 185,9Sa.

Hy invention relates to improvements in hand writing-boards or similardevices; and it consists of certain peculiarly constructed and 1arranged members, as hereinafter set forth and claimed; and the objectof my improvement is to provide a simple, inexpensive, durable,convenient, and practicable hand writing-board which is adapted tosuccessfully handle paper 2 0 without blotting or blurring the writingtherethe same, taken on lines :r ;r looking in'the direction of thearrow in Fig. 1.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views.

Although a singlestrip roll of paper is described as being used inconnection with the device shown in the drawings, it is to be understoodthat when a duplicate of the written matter is required a double-striproll may be employed. It is obvious, too, that the roll or paper-supplymay be suspended at some convenient place remote from the handwriting-board instead of being mounted directly thereon, if desired.

The invention comprises generally certain peculiarly-arranged actuatingor feed rollers mounted on or in a suitable frame provided with asupport or supports for the hand and the pen or pencil of the Writer,with such other parts as may be required to make up a complete device,all as hereinafter explained.

The hand writing-board frame may be of any suitable form or style, thatin the drawings consisting of side pieces 1 1, connected by cross-pieces2 and 3, a hand-rest 1, having side pieces 5 5, which are supported bythe side pieces 1, and a writing-bed 6, located back of the rest abetween the side pieces 5, a slot 7 being left between adjacent edges ofsaid rest and bed. The front edge of the bedthat is, the edge whichforms the rear side of the slot 7is rounded, so as to afford a suitablebearing for the paper in its passage through said slot, and the rearedge of said bed is also rounded in the present instance. A guideplateS, curved upward at its front terminal, extends between the sides 1 froma position beneath the large roller 9 forward below the bed 6 to theslot 7, the inside face of the upwardlycurved part of said platecoinciding with the front edge of said slot. The object of this plate isto guide the paper to the slot.

Standards 10 10 rise from the sides 1 back of the side pieces 5 tofurnish bearings "for the shaft 11 of two marginal rollers 12. The shaft13 of a roller 14: is journaled below the shaft 11. The large roller 9,which may be covered with rubber or other suitable material, has a shaft15, to the terminals of which the forward ends of springs 16 16 areattached, the rear ends of said springs being attached to pins 17 17,extending laterally from the sides 1, and these springs draw said rollerinto contact with or toward the rollers 12 and let. It will now be seenthat the marginal rollers 12, while acting upon the paper as it passesbetween them and the roller 9, in no case come in contact with any otherportions of the paper than the margins thereof, thus obviating alldanger of blotting or blurring the matter written upon said paper.Furthermore, said marginal rollers do not obstruct the view of thewritten matter in its passage over said roller9. Thelower roller 1&serves two purposes, one of which is to tightly hold the strip (orstrips) of paper under tension, as it were, so that it (or they) can bedrawn smoothly or evenly over the writing-bed, thus keeping the paper inproper condition to receive writing, and the other is to make itpossible to back the paper by reversing the feed, which would otherwisebe impracticable, if not impossible, without rewinding the paper on itsroll by hand at the time the backing takes place. In case it is,however, desired to dispense with a roll of paper this lower roller canbe omitted with approximately satisfactory results, a sheet or stripbeing led up the hand-rest 4, the slot 7 not being required in suchcase.

Fixed bearings 18 18 are provided in front of the standards 10, intowhich the terminals of the shaft may be placed by drawing forward theroller 9 against the resiliency of the springs 16 when it is desired toclear the passage between the rollers either for the introduction of thepaper or for the adjustment of the same. Such forward position of theroller 9 is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2. It will also be readilyobserved that the tension on the paper can be relieved at either side orboth sides by slightly pulling out the roller 9 without setting itsshaft in either one of the bearings 18.

Holders 20 2O are'firmly mounted on the .tops of the side pieces 1 atthe back for the shaft 21 of a paper supply-roll 22. Pins 23 23 may beused in the tops of the supports or holders 20 above the adjacent partsof the shaft 21 to prevent the same from leaving its bearing-recesses. Africtional tension-rod 24 is slidingly supported on stops 25 25, mountedon the side pieces 1 in front of the holders 20. This rod is held incontact with the paperroll by means of springs 26 26, extending betweenears 27 27, rigidly attached to the ends of said rod, and pins 28 28,projecting from arms 20 20 on the holders. The springs 26 not only holdthe rod 24 against the roll 22, but cause said rod to slide along thestops 25 and remain in contact with said roll as its size decreases whenthe paper is unwound. Since the ears 27 are fast to the rod 24, it isthereby held against rotation in spite of the rotation of the roll 22and the pull of the paper drawn over said rod in the mannerdescribedbelow. The holders 20, with the shaft or trunnions of a papersupply-roll, may be said to constitute the paper-roll holder.

The paper strip or web 29 passes from the roll 22 over and partly aroundthe rod 24, thence between the rollers 14 and 9 to the slot 7, the plate8 serving to direct the paper to said slot and finally backward over thebed 6 to the rollers 9 and 12, from between which said web emerges backof the roller 12. That portion of the web which is immediately back ofthe tension rod is quite firmly pressed against the balance of the roll,between which and said rod it passes by the latter, and more resistanceis offered by the rod when the web is drawn over the same.

- In the present instance I use the roller 9 as the primary actuating orfeed roller, applying a knob 30 to its left-hand end for convenience inoperating the mechanism. By turning the knob 30 so as to revolve theroller 9 in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 2 the upper reach of thestrip or web 29 will be actuated backward by reason of the contact ofthe rollers 14 and 9 with the lower reach of said web and the contact ofthe rollers 9 and 12 with the upper reach of the web, the papertraveling in the direction indicated by the arrows in Fig. 3. Byreversing the movement of the actuating or feed rollers the paper willbe backed and caused to pile up between the rollers 14 and 9 and thetension appliance, from which position it may be either drawn forwardagain for writing purposes or rewound upon the roll 22. The tensionappliance serves to keep the paper-roll from rotating when the web isnot in motion or when backed and assists in rewinding the web on theroll by guiding the paper and preventing twisting, as well as obviatingbacklash and providing the necessary amount of tension. The hand holdingthe pen or pencil rests on the part 4, and the writing is'done on thebed 6, the upper reach of paper being actuated rearward after one lineor more has been written to bring a fresh portion of paper into positionfor more writing. hen ink is used, no blotter is required, for thereason that the rollers 12 bear only on the margins of the paper on theside upon which the writing appears.

Although I have shown a complete and thoroughly operative embodiment ofmy invention, it is clear that various changes of minor importance maybe made in the construction and arrangement of some or all of its partswithout departing from the nature of said invention. For example, thehand-rest might be omitted and the writing-bed lengthened, in whichevent the hand of the operator would rest upon a'desk or other support,but the paper strip would still pass around the front edge of said bed.Then, again, any suitable substitution may be made for the specifictension appliance herein set forth, or such appliance may be omittedaltogether.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a hand writingboard provided with a suitablewriting-bed around the front of which paper may be drawn, of feedmechanism comprising a feed-roller, other rollers contacting only withthe end portions of said feed-roller or with the margins of aninterposed strip of paper, and means to draw the first-mentioned rollerinto resiliently frictional contact with the marginal rollers or withthe paper between.

2. The combination with a hand writingboard provided with a suitablehand-rest and Writing-bed with a slot between, of feed mechanismcomprising a feed-roller, other rollers contacting only with the endportions of said feed-roller or with the margins of an interposed stripof paper, and means to draw the first-mentioned roller toward and intoresilien tly frictional contact with the marginal rollers or with thepaper between.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two sub scribing witnesses.

CHARLES J. BELLAMY.

\Vitnesses:

F. A. CUTTER, A. L. STEVENS.

